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NORTHANGERLAND RE-VERSIONING THE POETRY OF BRANWELL BRONTE IBD

LEAFE PRESS
09 / 2022
9781739721329
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Sinopsis

In Northangerland Andrew Taylor has taken the black sheep of the Brontë family and pushed him centre-stage, repurposing BronwynâÇÖs pseudonym as a title. âÇÖRe-versioningâÇÖ, as Taylor dubs his process, is not so much offering a parallel text or a commentary on the original, but effects a distillation of it, isolating its essence, updating. He resembles Basil Bunting deleting and scribbling his way through ShakespeareâÇÖs sonnets, as he exchanges BrontëâÇÖs rhetoric for sculpted lines and deft sound-shapes (the rhymes chiming internally across their precise new line-breaks). Taylor is like an architect decluttering the Brontë Parsonage into a modern minimalist and open plan living space: âÇÖforms refuse the real/ & unreal to confuse phantom/ paths of joyâÇÖ. For all its careful acknowledgement of sources, this is an assured work for our times.áRobert Sheppard á

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